This parchment fragment from Martin le Franc’s Champion des Dames
(Book I, v. 3901-v. 4062 + Book II, v. 4313-v. 4470) is from the
15th century. The text corresponds to that of the Deschaux edition
(1999). Carefully copied in two columns, the different stanzas of
the poem are introduced by colored initials, alternating red and
blue, and by champie initials. Book II opens with a decorated
initial on a gold background, badly worn due to the fragment’s
use as binding for a land register during the 17th century. This
land register belonged to Jaques Etienne Clavel, co-ruler of
Marsens, Ropraz and Brenles (fol. 2r).
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